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C4MN0CPENDENT (AM)V------ PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM) That day the game was By DICK YOUNG KataditNewi Service I HUNG-UP-and won- He mentioned Jackie ventful, even though be dered.Bd it been or Robinson hardly atall had the Unenviable distinct attitude of the. Roscoe entire'stotywiS the of snuffing out i rally timeascomparedwitlLPe te -Reiser, Good news-- by hitting into a remark-j the way people think paperman, Roscoe. able double play. His drib Arthur Daley had done bier through the, the box in his column at the Dodger the fifth should have gone game that day. It was ti-' tied, Opening Day at Ebbets Field," and half-.

way through it, a were de-' today? I decided to call the New York TimeS to see how theyjmd handled Jackie Robinson. A very helpful gild jnamed Tern went -to. their microfilm. Roscoe McGowen, myold paragraph notes for a safety, but Dck Culler, playing in on the grass? made a diving stofr threw -to second for a force while, prostrate on the ground, A veteran Dodger said of him; "Having Jackie on the teauTis still a' little stranger just like anything -else thats newWe just dont know how to act with him but hell be accepted in time, you can be sure of that. Other- sports -have hadNegoresrwhy.

not' baseball? Im for him if he can. win games. Thats the only tiling task. around Jackie before the game that greats "dayrThere warao TV to speak ofr no-tape- record--ers. The newspaper photogs after the- game were busy with Pete Reis-; er, and so were the reporters- Maybe it wis lousy journalism.

The -climate twas different We weren't so socially, conscious every moment so ly more important than the 'historic stejr of tJ ackieT Roinson. He did-nothing-'! He got his headlines later, lots of them. when he earned them. He wasnt; treated like- some sideshow. He was' treated like a man that great day, any other man, --and when you think about it, whats so wrong Qonnk Ryan ailed the Beet Hobby at Erst for dazzling twin killing? for.

so. voted as follows: many years had covered "The debut of Jackie for. them that great 'day. 7 Robinson was quite ime-' NOBODY crowded CLKVELANDIn- the--- midst of aU of Tuesday's excitement sbout Frank-. Robinson, somebody asked' me if I had been at the-r game when Jackie Robin-sonjuoke andlsaid- jres.

asked me what it was like, and. I thought a. while, and said I couldn't He said you're kidding and I said no, I just could nt remember- any fuss over Jackie Robinson that day, and he said flunks, like I was holding out on him, and walked away. V- ltw 28 years ago, that i day when, as we used to say, the color line was broken. -Thats a long time, but.

still, a man should remember something like that. Whats a memorable day for if you cant remember? 'A' that didnt leave much for-Jackie Robinson or anyone else. -through rthe is the first mention of Jackie Robinson. had opened the Dodger 7th with a walk, it "said, and 1 i'-Jadde Robinson -Jaid down one of hisdett bunts towards first, raced reck-kssfy on the inside of the i baseline so as to obscure Ibe pegging vision ot Earl Torgeson, and succeeded in getting the rookie Erst-saeker to graze bis arm wib a hurried peg. The ball Dew into light Held territory and the runners Jlew to second.

third." last: paragraph of. the game story was do--voted to history.lt said: "In. his debut, Jackie Robinson, the majors most discussed rookie, perfumed flawlessly at Erst base, but wait hitless in three official trips to the plate. He rolled out to third in the Erst, kited a soft fly to kE in the third, liEed a hot double-play grounder to short to close out the fifth, and then scored the winning talfy on Reisers 7th-inning double after reaching on a sacrifice-error bv the Braves nolle, Earl Tug-erson. That it," said Billl Gallo at the other end of the phone.

not a sidebar story on Jackie Robinson? No notes story? Nothing, said Gallo. And I wrote the game story? You did, he said. I should have -been firod. He said nothing. He is a friend.

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purdnur mt I nqmni ft, 0MY hr An mm I Abb kfA ners MA An Hne camd aliMlMal A Plu SI-TV io $U1 FX.T. ond oW Bi. I KEPT, thinking, about it I had trouble falling asleep. Wednesday morning, I phoned the New York News, and found out why I couldnt remember any fuss about Jackie -Robinson on that great a There, hadnt been any. Bill Gallo answered the phone, put down his pen, went to the microfilm library and read to me from the Dsify News of April 16, 1947.

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